Autotrader scam?

[DaveCSparty]

From: mark joel <markjoel_auto2001@yahoo.co.uk>

Subject: 2004 VW

"Hello,
Am interested in your car,please furnish me with these info..............
The bottom price,it's current condition and the reason for selling the car.
Thanks"

Definitely a scam right? Overseas and all. Im not even gonna bother to reply

 

[FoBoT]

you don't want to sell your car overseas, you want to sell it to someone local who will bring you a pile of cash money

 

[DainBramaged]

Why would he give a crap about why you are selling it? Does he actually think somebody is going to be like, "I am selling it because it's a piece of sh!t."?

 

[StageLeft]

LOL, what you're gonna put the thing on a container ship and ship it to him? I'd actually reply and be nasty about it, because stupidity of that level needs to be addressed.

 

[daveman]

Sounds like a scam. A friend of mine tried to sell his car on Autotrader. Some guy overseas sent him a fake check for like $20K and wanted my friend to send the difference back to him. My friend took the check to the bank but the teller was smart enough to figure it out. Like FoBot said, you want to sell it to someone local who has cash or is working through a local bank.

Good Luck

 

[Confused]

Yep, almost all emails with this kind of text will be scams.

Just email back a basic reply saying "Cost of car is $2000 and condition is very good", and wait for the next reply, if it asks to send a check for $4000 and you send back $2000 for a car worth $2000 due to some error with bank or shipper etc then just ignore. If it's not and it's just someone with bad engrish, then they might still come up with the money!


Confused

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: DaveCSparty
From: mark joel <markjoel_auto2001@yahoo.co.uk>

Subject: 2004 VW

"Hello,
Am interested in your car,please furnish me with these info..............
The bottom price,it's current condition and the reason for selling the car.
Thanks"

Definitely a scam right? Overseas and all. Im not even gonna bother to reply

yeah he's gonna send you a check for double the value and ask you to refund the difference...

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
LOL, what you're gonna put the thing on a container ship and ship it to him? I'd actually reply and be nasty about it, because stupidity of that level needs to be addressed.

Nah, his Nigerian courier friend will arrange to pick it up.

 

[StageLeft]

I'd play along actually and see if he sends the check, then say you didn't get it, wait for him to resend, say you didn't get it. Do that until he's bored, then finally email back saying something dismissive like "Heh, I'm just playing with you...I know you're trying to scam me. I hope the postage fees didn't bug you too much. Cheers!"

 

[getbush]

Why does anyone ask the bottom price? Why not just ask "How far can I lowball you?" Rediculous. In this case it might just be an attempt to sound like an actual retarded buyer instead of a retarded scammer.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I can't believe there's a thread about this.

 

[Reckoner]

I get responses like that all the time for my car on AutoTrader. Basically it's got to the point where if I see a response from a yahoo address I ignore it.